A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.

Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.

Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music.

To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing

Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.

Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.

Music possesses much richer means of expression and it is a more subtle medium for translating the 1000 shifting moments of the feelings of the soul.

After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison.

I like the plot of The Nutcracker - not at all.

The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity

One by one, the electric lights ringing the lawn were ignited. Each one, as it burst into brilliance, erased a constellation from the evening sky.

In the therapeutic process based on awareness, there exists no ”I" – it just exists a presence, a light, a love and a silence.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

[To] Immediately...turn to our spirit and exercise our spirit to contact God...practically means that we do not trust in ourselves but in God.

The moment you get emotionally involved with your goal, it instantly and automatically begins to move into physical form.

As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.

The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.

If there is no adventure in your life, it is as if you live no life! Adventure is the real soul of man; without it, He is a stub!

I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.

A man with deep far-sightedness will survey both the beginning and the end of a situation and continually consider its every facet as important.